Today we started class by having lots of problems with our powerpoints and downloading and stuff.
Hiroshima. Manhattan project is where they made the nuclear weapons. 90,000 - 166,000 people died from this. a lot after died as well because of radiation and other ways. Japan soon surrendered.
Doctrines.
Roosevelts doctrin said you could attack anywhere basically without warning and you could sink their ships.Also didnt allow commerce Raiding.
USS indianapolis that carried the atomic bomb to Tinian island where we took off from to drop the bomb on Japan. A day after it dropped the bomb off it was sunk by Japanese U-boats.
Commerce Raiding is the use of naval forces to destroy the supply lines of an enemy on the open sea, rather than engaging the combatants themselves or enforcing a blockade against them.
Major battles:
-Midway
-Coral Sea
-Iwo Jima
-GuadalCanal
-Philippines
Idland hopping--- Crossing an ocean by a series of shorter journey between islands, as opposed to a single journey direcctly across the ocean to the destination. After the batlle of midway established a line of overlapping island bases, as well as air control.
Capture certain key islands within american bombers.
Led by General MacArthur.
Then we moved onto the topic of the spying game...
Cryptography. The practice and study of hiding information. Was used in WW2 to pass special messages to another country without.
Codenames:
-Magic
-Bombe
-Purple
Magic-
-was an allied machine.
-A project directed toward japan.
-to break their diplomatic codes.
-this allowed allied policy-makers to read their diplomatic messages.
-deciphered japanese codes.
Purple-
-Was a japanese machine.
-would take a message, transfer into a codde.
-The recieving machine could translate the code only under certain settings.
Bombe-
-British machine
-decoded German messages
Enigma-
-was invented by German engineer, Arthur Scherbius.
-British and American code breakers were able to break large number of codes
-was like a typewriter
-American machine
-type your message and it would scramble it.
Ultra-
- was the codename for the thing that intercepted and decoded things from an enigma.
-Decoded German messages.
Navaho Code talkers.
Native Americans who served in the US marine corps. Maine job was to decode secret messages. Ued navajo language. Other than natives not many knew the language. wasnt comples. couldve been broken if a native speaker and cryptogropher worked together.
Klaus Fuchs. Gave the Soviet Union information from the US and Britain. Information about atomic bomb. Sent to US to help develop the atomic bomb. Was claimed he was involved with a spy ring that shared information in 1945. Denied this up to 1950 then admitted being involved. Was sentenced to 14 years of prison. 1950- he was styripped of British Citizenship.
Tokyo Rows was a radio show with girls and they would basically just talk about the war and details.
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